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Thinking Quotes by John Dewey
- Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
- Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking,…
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it…
- I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.
- You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not…
- We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
- There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of…
- We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from…
- No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is to the one…
- In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as…
- When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and…
- The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery…
- It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are…
- Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is…
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
- We only think when we are confronted with problems.
- Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
- For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that…
- The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in…
- Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
More Thinking Quotes
- If you're not a hater you're probably not thinking hard enough. — Nikhil Saluja
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello